Dick Lugar: “The President identified the war in Afghanistan as his administration's highest combat priority.”

Several members of Congress have already proposed legislation along these lines.

Yes, I believe New START meets this threshold with one exception.

Congress has the ability to press the administration on its strategy to prevent a new Euro-missile race and increased instability in the absence of the INF Treaty.

In the likely event the INF Treaty collapses in August, the only remaining bilateral U.S.-Russia arms control agreement would be New START, which expires in 2021 but can be extended by up to five years through agreement by both parties.